Watch | Will Bengaluru choose BJP again?

Watch | Will Bengaluru choose BJP once more? | Decode Karnataka

Since the flip of the millennium, the BJP has remained undefeated in all three seats throughout Bengaluru metropolis. BJP has not misplaced Bengaluru North since 2004, Bengaluru Central since 2009, and principally importantly, it has loved an uninterrupted profitable streak in Bengaluru South since 1991. 

Will the tide flip in 2024? What makes the Bengaluru voter tick? Does the Modi wave nonetheless maintain sway over the city citizens? 

India’s IT capital has been recognized to vote in a different way in Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. 

In Bengaluru City North, South and Central, the BJP has not misplaced a Lok Sabha election because the 2000s. The solely exception to that is Bengaluru Rural (previously Kanakapura) the place sitting Congress MP DK Suresh has held the seat since 2014. 

In the 2023 State polls, of the 32 Assembly constituencies in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, the Congress gained 16, the BJP 15 and the JD(S) 1. While this may occasionally counsel a gradual assist base for the Congress within the area, luck and numbers haven’t favoured the celebration within the Parliamentary polls. 

To give us a greater studying of the politics and citizens of this city battlefield, now we have with us this week, Bengaluru bureau’s Deputy City Editor, KV Aditya Bharadwaj.

Reporting: Nalme Nachiyar and KV Aditya Bharadwaj

Video and manufacturing: Ravichandran N.